Department: Deporte e Informática

Area: Physical Education and Sport

Research group: Actividad Física, Salud y Deporte

Personal web: https://forms.gle/YmjULnevNiSDp3uK7

Áreas PAIDI: Ciencia y Técnicas de la Salud

Programas de doctorado: Ciencias de la Actividad Física, del Deporte y la Salud

Doctor by the Universidad Pablo de Olavide with the thesis Comportamiento sedentario, actividad física y condición física como herramientas complementarias en la evaluación y promoción de la salud de personas diagnosticadas con trastorno mental grave 2018. Supervised by Dr. Diego Munguía Izquierdo.

I am a University Professor and a pioneer in Spain using "Physical Exercise as Medicine" in Mental Health patients. In 2013 I started in Mental Health for my Doctoral Thesis that took me to a psychiatric prison for 1 year and to travel to the other side of the world. Since then, I have earned almost 1,000,000 EUROS to Research in this field (collaborating with the most renowned scientists in the world), published +90 scientific works, directed doctoral theses in this line and taught Courses to train Mental Health Professionals (the last one in July 2024). Since 2021 I have been sharing testimonies from protagonists of Mental Health and the advances of PowerONyou on YouTube. And today, I keep asking myself how to improve the present? and why not? Places where we have ALREADY implemented physical exercise programs: *Andalusian Foundation for the Social Integration of People with Mental Illness (FAISEM). *Mental Health Day Hospital of the Hospital Virgen de Valme. *Penitentiary Psychiatric Hospital of Seville. *Universidad Pablo de Olavide...integrating users derived from FAISEM and the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) through the Therapeutic Communities and Mental Health Rehabilitation Units of the Hospitals Virgen del Rocío, Virgen Macarena and Virgen de Valme.